In his resignation. Cobbs statement reads, nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr. Flynn. The conclusion of this phase of the special counsels work demonstrates, again, that the special counsels moving with all the deliberate speed and clears the way for a prompt and reasonable conclusion, end quote. Lying to the fbi carries a penalty of up to five years in prison, but he wont be sentenced for several months. Experts say the sentence will depend on how much he ends up cooperating with federal investigators. Keith jones. The timeline here, the meetings and the lies that led thootod to todays guilty plea happened in less than two months. Flynn was sworn in as National Security advisory on january 22nd. Two days later, he lied to the fbi about his interactions with the russian government. On february 13th flynn resigned after the Justice Department told the white house he could be subject to blackmail. Lock him up. Lock him up. Lock him up. Our coverag
Scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top Law Enforcement official of the land. Reporter amid the controversy two more of President Trumps cabinet members were confirmed today. Dr. Ben carson as housing and urban development secretary, and rick perry as energy secretary. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. California senator Kamala Harris is joining the growing number of democrats calling on the attorney general to resign. She tweeted, recusal is not good enough. Attorney general Jeff Sessions needs to resign. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the democratic leader Chuck Schumer are also calling for Jeff Sessions to step down. In 20 minutes we will talk to our political analyst james taylor about what this controversy could mean for the trump presidency. Two suspects have been arrested and a third person is considered a person of interest after an offduty Oakland Police officer was shot at on the freeway. Crime reporter henry lee jo
Transition, so you have the head of the landing team for the National Security council. He basically, learns that flynn is planning to have a conversation with kislayak, the Russian Ambassador and hes concerned and basically wants to provide him with information. He wants him to know that his conversation with kislayak, would probably be intercepted by the fbi here in the u. S. , which is monitoring ambassadors like kislayak and other ambassadors and overseas, when kislayak finishes his meeting with a foreign official, he sends it to moscow. So he wanted him to be aware. He was so concerned, and according to reporting and was concerned that flynn didnt quite understand the role kislayak plays, that they actually drew up or requested intelligence documents or kind of a profile of kislayak . The cia when they go and have meetings with those people, the american has an idea of what theyre getting into. This is a document thats prepared and its updated regularly, so what happened in this c
Insurance and possible higher premiums for older americans. Well look at how the gop plan could affect all of us. Lets get to it. First from the news deck, President Trump is blaming democrats for the problems of Jeff Sessions. The president says the democrats are trying to make up for their election loss and the entire russian narrative is a total witch hunt. President trump even sparked a twitter ward with Chuck Schumer over the russian matter. More on that in a moment. This comes a day after the attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation into russias interference in americas election after admitting that he spoke twice with the Russian Ambassador in the campaign season. Sessions didnt disclose those discussions in confirmation hearings. The attorney general claims thats because he spokes to russias ambassador as a senator, not as a campaign surrogate. And that the two did not discuss the election. One of the conversations took place in july after attorney
Loot into russias meddling in the election, not as a suspect but source of information. Investigators focus on meetings with sergey kislyak, as well as a meeting with a russian bank subject to u. S. Sanctions. Kushners attorneys tells nbc news, of course, mr. Kushner volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. He will do the same if hes convicted in connection with any other inquiry. Meanwhile reuters reported on friday that kushner had multiple undisclosed contacts with kislyak between april and november of last year and that fbi investigators are, quote, examining whether russians subjected to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to peopl with ties to trump. Kushners attorney said kushner has no recollection of these meetings. Joining me now nayyera haq, mr. Nantz, former cia agent jack rice and former fbi double agent. Wow, wow, and wow. Im going to start with you, nayyera, how normal or